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Subject: 
Re: Cats and pigeons...
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Date: 
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:49:36 GMT
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:08:47 GMT, "Jeff Stembel" <Dragonelf1@aol.com>
wrote:

P.S.  Todd can't cancel the post without the poster's permission, remember.

Uhm, Jeff? To paraphrase a popular quote: This is Lugnet. You have no
inherent rights.

Todd can do whatever he wants with lugnet.com. Up to and including
going postal BOFH and cancelling random messages.

Whether he is likely to do so, or will retain readership is another
matter altogether.

Jasper



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  Re: Cats and pigeons...
 
(...) I should point out that anyone could go postal on Usenet and start cancelling random messages there just as easily if they really wanted to. It's slightly more difficult to forge cancels than to forge actual messages, but it can be done, and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) But it *is* public. It is on a public server, open to everyone. If that isn't public, I don't know what is. I (and others) did this Last December to see some of the Star Wars sets, and no one complained then. why is today different? Because of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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